CVE-2024-7259

FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-7259 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting oVirt and Red Hat Virtualization, allowing administrators, including ReadOnlyAdmin users, to view Provider passwords in cleartext via browser developer tools. The attack requires high privileges and no user interaction, but grants high confidentiality impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this flaw.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 4.5.7CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:ovirt:ovirt-engine::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

1.2

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.26%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

17.8%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0026 is in the 9th percentile among its peer group of 3,565 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference

View patch

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4Fixed in: ovirt-engine

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2024-7259Moderate

ovirt-engine: potential exposure of cleartext Provider passwords via web ui

Sep 26, 2024

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2024-7259

Vendor Advisory

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi

Issue TrackingVendor Advisory